Charley Barrett, Joe Schultz and Bill Killefer on the way to California to scout for new baseball players for the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Charley Barrett, Joe Schultz and Bill Killefer on the way to California to scout for new baseball players for the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis, 1936

Date Created

January 29, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Hide Your Elephant-They're Ivory Hunters," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 1936: A9.
Photograph of Charley Barrett, head scout of the Cardinals chain-store system, Sacramento scout Joe Schultz and Senators manager Bill Killefer.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L2R Joe Schultz x Charley Barrett Bill Killefer1-28-36
Text from newspaper caption: Now that the St. Louis Cardinals own the Sacramento franchise in the Pacific Coast League, Branch Rickey has sent his prize scouts out here to scour California for young baseball prospects. Here are Joe Schultz, Sacramento scout; Charley Barrett, head scout of the Cards' chain-store system, and Bill Killefer, who'll manage the Senators this year. This trio, assisted by Billy Southworth and Ira Smith, will conduct baseball camps at Fresno and Riverside next month. [Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 1936: A9]
Text from negative sleeve: 3388 - Joe Schultz (Sacramento bball scout) Charley Barrett (St. Louis bball scout) Bill Killefer (Sacramento team manager) BASEBALL 1-28-36 [stamped:] Jan 29 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Baseball scouts--California--Los Angeles

Names

Killefer, William, 1887
Schultz, Joe
Barrett, Charley

Location

California

Resource type

still image